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  • What is Netlab and Why Network Engineers Should Care
  • netlab 26.04: EXOS, BGP Prefix Origination, More Static Routes
  • Testing FRRouting Pull Requests with netlab

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blog.ipspace.net /1 month ago

What is Netlab and Why Network Engineers Should Care

Milan Zapletal, the author of the biggest netlab topology I’ve seen so far (full story), has published a nice introductory article explaining What is Netlab and Why Network Enginee...

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blog.ipspace.net /1 month ago

netlab 26.04: EXOS, BGP Prefix Origination, More Static Routes

netlab release 26.04 is out. Here are the highlights: Extreme Networks EXOS is supported as a Vagrant box or containerlab node with OSPF, VLAN, and VRRP configuration (by Seb d’Ar...

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blog.ipspace.net /1 month ago

Testing FRRouting Pull Requests with netlab

Every other blue moon, I discover a bug in FRRouting (example). Because the FRRouting developers care about their work, it usually gets fixed within a few days, often resulting in...

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blog.ipspace.net /1 month ago

Worth Reading: Lab as Code (containerlab and netlab)

@sjhloco wrote an excellent in-depth description of how you can use containerlab and netlab to manage your labs as code. He also documented a few netlab shortcomings (one of which...

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blog.ipspace.net /1 week ago

netlab 26.05: BGP-free SRv6 Core, Junos Features

<p><em>netlab</em> release 26.05 is out. Here are the highlights:</p> Support for <a href="https://netlab.tools/module/srv6/#module-srv6-services&q...

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blog.ipspace.net /1 month ago

Generate Partial Device Configurations with netlab

At ITNOG 10, I’ve seen something that I haven’t seen in a very long time: a mini-Interop-style physical lab using a dozen devices from different vendors. The network core was a lea...

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blog.ipspace.net /1 month ago

Lab: Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) with EVPN MAC-VRF Instances

Most EVPN documentation rushes into the complexities of symmetric IRB, type-5 EVPN routes, and EVPN IP-VRFs, but if you want to master a technology, it’s better to take it slow and...

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blog.ipspace.net /2 weeks ago

Lab: EVPN Asymmetric IRB with Anycast Gateways

I postponed the discussion of ARP issues with EVPN anycast gateways to keep yesterday’s blog post reasonably short. If you’re impatient and want to try that out, I have just the ri...

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blog.ipspace.net /1 week ago

Goodbye, Ubuntu 20.04 (netlab 26.05)

netlab release 26.05 is out. I’ll write about its highlights tomorrow; today, I want to focus on one of its breaking changes: netlab no longer works with Python 3.8 (which reached...

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vmblog.com /1 week ago

Nokia launches AI networking lab to drive co-innovation with partners and accelerate next era of AI-native data center n...

Nokia announced the launch of its AI Networking Innovation Lab, a new center designed to drive co-innovation with AI and

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blog.ipspace.net /1 month ago

BGP Labs: Graceful Degradation for Unsupported Devices

A few weeks ago, I described the changes in the online BGP labs that allow you to use most of the common network operating systems as “external” routers1. However, while we keep im...

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idev.games /1 month ago

Dark Forest

Welcome to Dark Forest, a few-rules webRTC game where the real-world network is the worldmap.You are a little node in the dark. Can you build a network and keep...

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